Breakdown of bursary and scholarship options in South Africa in the Legal, Financial, Pharmaceutical and Accounting sectors!
Accounting:
Grant Thornton: Have a focused career site which features information about bursaries on offer.
BDO: has a bursary offering for students registering or currently pursing a career as a Chartered Accountant.
Auditor General South Africa: has a bursary set-up that is targeted at individuals currently or intending to study towards a chartered accountancy career.
PWC: Visit their students careers page to find more about what bursaries they have on offer.
Also check out the Thuthuka Bursary Fund (SAICA).
Legal:
Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr: Have created an awesome careers website which includes information of their bursary opportunities.
Webber Wentzel: Have set up scholarship opportunities for individuals.
Another interesting bursary offering in this field is with the Attorneys Fidelity Fund.
Pharmaceutical:
PSSA (Pharmaceutical Society of South Africa) – has put together a bursary set-up through the Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education (FPE). Awesome to see support for pharmaceutical talent in South Africa!
Financial:
STANLIB - according to their website the investment company has been running their bursary programme since 2005 and covers a number of different fields including studies in Finance, Human Resources, Actuarial Science, Marketing and Economics to name but a few.